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Tuesday March 3, 2015

Politicians, businesses, and social service agencies from all over Hillsborough and Pinellas counties are teaming up to try and have more area residents apply for the earned income tax credit The credit, abbreviated EITC as created in 1975, but every year, millions of dollars goes unclaimed just in these e two counties alone. This afternoon, the prosperity campaign of Hillsborough and Pinellas counties was launched at the Corporation to develop communities, in east Tampa.

Next Thursday, the Tampa city council is scheduled to decide whether to approve plans for the new Tampa Art Museum. The plan has become more and more financially unstable over the past year, with the price of construction rising, and the business community coming up short on the amount of money they have to raise under an agreement with the city. In a WMNF exclusive, This afternoon, WMNF spoke to Tampa may Pam Iorio about the future of the new art museumÃ¢â¬âIorio told us she doesnÃ¢â¬...

As part of President BushÃ¢â¬â¢s Campaign to allow a portion of workerÃ¢â¬â¢s payroll taxes for Social Security be put into privatized accounts, the President will travel to a number of cities across the Country on Thursday and Friday, culminating in a Ã¢â¬ÅdiscussionÃ¢â¬? at the Tampa Convention Center at 6PM on Friday evening.

The PresidentÃ¢â¬â¢s plans to alter Social Security are alarming Seniors in particular, and with Florida home to 9 of the 10 congressional districts ...

This morning, about 30 people gathered in front of WMNFs new building on Martin Luther king boulevard, to protest the removal of Connie Burton and her Sunday morning program, Straight Talk, from WMNFs airwaves. Andrew Stelzer reports.

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Ã¢â¬ËStraight talk is a community program, thereÃ¢â¬â¢s no justifiable reason that straight talk is not on the air..Ã¢â¬?

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Straight Talk was cancelled a week ago today; the WMNF press release said the ...

Last Friday, at the Stetson university school of law, Michael Traynor, the President of the American Law Institute, gave a speech titled Citizenship In A Time Of Repression. WMNFÃ¢â¬â¢s Andrew Stelzer was there, and filed this report.

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Ã¢â¬ËI feel in my heart that our basic liberties are being repressed by our own government, I realize that there are various points of viewÃ¢â¬âall of us are trying to seek the right balance between liberty and security.<p...

John Kerry said yesterday that the attacks of September 11th were the Ã¢â¬Ëcentral deciding thingÃ¢â¬â¢ in his contest with President Bush, and that the release of an Osama Bin Ladin videotape 4 days before the election effectively erased any hope he had of winning.

In his first extended television interview since the election, Kerry sat down with NBCÃ¢â¬â¢s Tim Russert on Meet the Press to rehash the election. (roll tape#1 o.q.Ã¢â¬?IÃ¢â¬â¢m proud of the campaign, TimÃ¢â¬?)...

Naomi Tutu is a race and gender activistÃ¢â¬Â¦SheÃ¢â¬â¢ll be presenting Striving For Justice: Searching for Common Ground based on her vision that this is still much to do to eradicate racial oppression in South African and around the world.

JESSICA SHARZER, Director and Screenplay, Movie Ã¢â¬ÅSpeak.Ã¢â¬? Ã¢â¬ÅSpeakÃ¢â¬? is the tragicomic story of a smart, spirited high school freshman who has been stunned into silence by an unspeakable event. Sharzer vividly render a teenagerÃ¢â¬â¢s world. Unfolding over the course of the school year, Ã¢â¬ÅSpeakÃ¢â¬? captures the absurdities and torments of high school, where speaking up can lead to trouble for students and teachers alike.

LORNA BRACEWELL, Singer/Songwriter. Lorna will be live in the studio playing some of her music. Born and raised in Indian Rocks Beach, Florida, Lorna is a genuine Floridian with an affinity for sunshine and water. She majored in political science at Flagler College and has matured into a powerful singer-guitarist since her start as a kid drummer in a Christian rock group. She is releasing her third CD, Ã¢â¬ÅGod ForbidÃ¢â¬? tonight. In it she tackles some of the issues that concern her: ...